Course Content Outline

First three-and-a-half-day workshop:

There will be written, audio, and video material suggested for participants to review before this first workshop.

Thursday night: 6:00 to 9:00 pm

Keith welcomes participants and reaffirms the goals and commitments of the program. He explains his responsibility to establish and maintain the healing/learning/transformational container dedicated to horizontal and vertical health/development professionally/personally. He explains the outline of the upcoming workshop (which has already been posted on the site).

Developmental stages and how to teach/include them in the therapy session.

Shame dynamics and how to deal with shame attacks.

Long term and short term therapy.

The Hero’s Journey and how that fits into the therapy session.

Warrior and Man of Wisdom.

Sexual essence and aspect, masculine and feminine types, and how to manage them in the therapy session.

Stages of bonding and what each requires in therapy..

Integrally informed sex therapy.

Terry Real’s relationship grid and his principles of conjoint therapy–strengths and weaknesses.

The John Gottman approach to conjoint therapy–especially using his data to organize the work.

Divorce: What a separation session is and how to do it.

Integrally informed couples therapy.

Integrally informed family therapy.

Addiction, what it is and how to deal with it in the therapy session.

Dreamwork.

Gestalt therapy: the basis of so much of current thought and practice.

EMDR/ Reconsolidation therapy/trauma work.

Somatic re-experiencing, sensorimotor psychotherapy, and trauma work.

Borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder: how to diagnose the traits and low/medium/high functioning versions of the disorders, and how to deal with them in the therapy session.

Transference and countertransference: positive, negative, and sexual

Depression/anxiety/OCD.

Cultivating laughter and humor while dealing with multiple levels of hostility/threat in you and clients in the session.

Second three-and-a-half-day workshop:

Thursday night: 6:00 to 9:00 pm

We greet each other and begin telling our stories of the last nine months. I introduce everyone to the recording and presentation process we will be engaging in over the next three days.

Friday: 9:30 to 5:30

Yoga: Hatchi Dan Keen

We begin with participants’ recording TEDx-style talks on the subjects of their choice, with group feedback and participation.

Saturday: 9:30 to 5:30

Yoga: Hatchi Dan Keen

We review contemplative practices designed to stabilize our connections to Spirit in the therapy session.

We continue presentations and discussions of the presentations.

Saturday night dinner party at Keith’s house.

Sunday: 9:30 to 4:00

Yoga: Hatchi Dan Keen

We discuss how our intersubjectivity has developed over the last nine months.

We discuss and practice stable connections with the other world during sessions.

We help each other determine what is next in our individual and collective journeys.

Darshan.

Program Application

Application Details

This program application will require 10-15 minutes to fill out completely. Note that we will collect $200 via credit card at the end of this application form. Some applicants will be invited to a 20 - 60 minute phone interview with Dr. Keith Witt.

If you are not invited to join the program we will refund your $200 application fee to the same card you use to pay the fee.

If you are invited to the 20 - 60 minute phone interview and are then invited to participate in the Integral Master Therapist Program, your $200 application fee will be applied to your tuition.